Perfect Peace Quotes

“Big don't mean ugly, and thin sho don't mean pretty. If a person wants to be pretty, they gotta walk pretty, talk pretty and act pretty. Can't nobody take pretty from you.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Sometimes, when people think they're putting obstacles in your path, they're actually laying your stepping-stones. You just gotta recognize them as one and the same.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“You can't lie a lifetime,son. Either you gon' tell the truth, or the truth's gon' tell on you”
― Daniel Black , Perfect Peace

“Denial makes people repeat what they aren’t willing to acknowledge.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“God has a way of making sure you reach your destiny, regardless of what others do to you.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Don't give people god's power. Yeah, they have opinions and stuff, but they ain't got no power to change your world unless you give it to 'em. Keep the power you got. You'll need it. I promise.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“By figuring out how the experience can help you move forward. That's the point of why it happened to you in the first place. There's something you're suppose to get from the moment that'll get you closer to your mission if you can see it. Most people can't.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Evidence doesn't always convince people of the truth, [...] especially when the lie is what they prefer.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“You have to get clear about the kind of life you can live here. Life can be lived anywhere, but not every life can be lived everywhere.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“If you different, be different. People'll get used to it. They ain't got no other choice”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“But remember this: you're strong because of your people - not in spite of them.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Anybody can live good - soon as they decide the world can kiss they ass.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Don't give people God's power. Yeah, they have opinions and styff, but they ain't got no power to change your world unless you give it to 'em. Keep ll the power you got. You'll need it. I promise.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“He'd thought all weak men were sissies, and maybe they were, but Paul had shown him that not all sissies were weak.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“God has a way of making sure you
reach your destiny, regardless of what others do to you”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Sometimes, when people think they’re putting obstacles in your path, they’re actually laying your stepping-stones. You just gotta recognize them as one and the same.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“What he liked about the Jordan was hat no one could hinder its flow. It has a mind all its own. Other's opinions of its size or depth didn't matter. Only God possessed the power to subvert its course. Whether viewers loved it or not was inconsequential. It was a river, and it was created to flow, and that was exactly what it did. And that's all it did. That was its purpose, and no one could alter that identity regardless of what they thought.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Don’t give people God’s power. Yeah, they have opinions and stuff, but they ain’t got no power to change your world unless you give it to ’em.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Big don’t mean ugly, baby, and thin sho don’t mean pretty. If a person wanna be pretty, they gotta walk pretty and act pretty and talk pretty. Can’t nobody take pretty from you.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Because the heart always tells on itself. Even when we think we hidin’ it.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Life can be lived anywhere, but not every life can be lived everywhere.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“We’ll be gentle, Daddy,” Mister promised. “I bet she look jes’ like Momma.” Gus tried to imagine a toddler version of Emma Jean, complete with double-D breasts, a rotund behind, and a scar on the side of her face, but he couldn’t conceive”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“we ain’t callin’ no son o’ mine Perfect. I don’t never wanna hear that name again.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“I’m sayin’ we gotta help the boy ’cause he gotta live, and right now he don’t know how to live.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“Perfect stared at her mother as though she had never seen her. Was this some sort of joke? Why was Emma Jean doing this?”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“She loved her mother and that’s what she hated most.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“It’s fine though ’cause you can’t run from yo’self. Don’t care how hard you try, when you turn around, that self is starin’ back at you.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace

“sometimes you have to grow up before you appreciate how you grew up. I’m still learning that one.”
― Daniel Black, Perfect Peace